Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Hobbies Watching TV Harmful to Children


Indeed, television provides benefits for children. But if it is not restricted and monitored, it is dangerous.

As a parent, should be selected what TV show that kids watch and firmly linked to how long children may watch TV.

In some studies, watching TV also has a negative impact, particularly for physical and mental health. Too much time watching TV in relation to:


Obesity

Problem of overweight threatens children who watch TV more than two hours each day. Findings from University College London also found that five year olds who get a few extra hours to watch TV on weekends at risk of obesity later age of 30 years as much as seven percent.

Another study conducted by the Division of General Pediatrics and Stanford Center for Disease Prevention Research found that watching TV causes obesity for several reasons, including lack of physical activity, increased calorie consumption while watching or caused by the effects of advertising and less resting metabolism.


Irregular sleep

If a child is watching TV more than two hours a day, especially at night, children are more likely to suffer from irregular sleep patterns, issues and other sleep disorders, such as nightmares and autism.


Behavior problems

Emotional problems, social and attention are more likely to occur in children who watch lots of TV. In addition, excessive TV watching is also associated with violence, impaired academic performance and less time playing outdoors with their peers.



Seeing your child Scenes of Violence, It's You Must Do


Although shown in a fictional cartoon, the effect could affect the mental and psychological health of the child.

Who says cartoons are safe for children?

Just look at Tom & Jerry. Cartoon that tells the competition between cat and mouse scenes full of violence.

Jerry hitting Tom with a big hammer or Jerry gets revenge by burning down Tom's tail.

So also with Spongebob Squarepants. The scene cuts or organ of the body-blows at it too dangerous to be witnessed by the child.

Although shown in a fictional cartoon, the effect could affect the mental and psychological health of the child.

Limiting television show for children is very important to protect the mental development. But if you keep "cheated" by your child, there are some things you can do.


1. Reprimand

When children see violent scenes on television, the first thing you need to do is reprimand and explained that what he witnessed a bad behavior and not something to be emulated. If you neglect to tell the child, the child will regard it as normal.


2. Only acting

Explain to your child what they witnessed on television just a parts of acting and just made up. If replicated, it can lead to bad things, such as injury or harm to others. If there is a scene he had witnessed violence in cartoons, explain that the movie character that witnessed only purely fictional.


3. Behind the scenes

To show what kind of a movie is made, show the video behind the scenes of the movie watching. It is intended that the child understands that the scene he saw was made with special tricks in order to keep the players safe and not injured.


4. Explain the impact

Tell the child what impact if he imitated scenes of violence on television. Explain that the strike could make others sick and wounded, shot with a rifle can eliminate life, and so forth.


5. Teach kindness

Teach children kindness and do not drown in the things violent. Teach them that doing well and rebuke in words its better than using physical violence. Children also need to know that harm living things it does not good.




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